Ponte City Apartments In Johannesburg South Africa
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- Ponte City Apartments In Johannesburg South Africa
This building got taken hijacked by gangsters who stripped the entered building including the elevators. They charged people to stay here and drug dealing and prostitution thrived behind its grey walls. Of course, there was no maintenance for the building so people threw their trash in the middle and even suicidal people themselves over. Bodies and trash pile up 13 floors. This is the story of Ponte City, Johannesburg.
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Not just the building bru. Our country got hijacked by gangsters.
Leave
Why are you still here, apartheid sympathizer?
@@rathernot6660 buy his ticket
Powerful
@@Rey-zd4po exactly . this moron thinks its just that easy and that money grows on trees . id happily leave if i was given that opportunity
Homie was literally like “This is where all the dead bodies were and all the trash 😃”
Yes homie was literally like that.
😂 he seemed so happy about it
"This skyscraper used to be an urban slum! 😃"
Optimistic mofos
I mean maybe he's smiling that the problem is now eradicated
One of Chappie's frames was filmed in there, if im not mistaken. It's a nice film!
Yazzz I recognized it too and was about to say the same thing.
Yeah so was some reboot of judge dread a few years ago!
Glad u can tell
I no
Yeah...I was searching for this comment!❤
My aunt used to live in this building when it was beautiful and clean.
was this before 1994 genuine question
@@RickTheBoss98 Yes, must’ve been the 70’s
@@pandahugger3095 I'm in the UK when I talk to older South Africans they basically are pro pre 1994 the youngest South African seem to be dislike the idea of pre 1994 from the outside Looking In it looks like X was much better in the early 90s
Hopefully South Africa repair itself
@@RickTheBoss98 I think nobody likes the fact that apartheid existed. It should have never happened and it was a crime upon people of colour. But if one just looks at infrastructure, it was better before 1994. All public services worked and infrastructure was maintained. Unfortunately now the government is corrupted and poor people are suffering horribly, they have equal rights now as it should be, but they suffer in my opinion more than before 1994 with crumbling infrastructure and public services.
😂
“And this is where all the dead bodies were, and the trash” he says with a smile on his face
I was thinking that....
Boohoo
Like James Cameron describing Titanic 😅
I dont think this guy is meant for history lessons
@@skaffa1700 I think your emotions might be a bit off
Probably the only building that I, as an American, recognized from South Africa. Chappie was one hell of a movie
I stg bro i knew someone else would see this building and know where its from
Me rn lol
i was looking for this comment lmao
I KNEW IT WAS THIS BUILDING
Yup
Sadly this building used to be a landmark in Johannesburg. The ANC took over and dug a deep, horrible dark hole in a beautiful country. 😢😢😢
So when I was around 8-12 years old (late 70’s - mid 80’s) my dad used to live here. It was extremely upscale. Had it’s own shopping center, cable television, bowling alley, etc. It was very safe and occupied by middle to upper middle class families, with penthouses on the top floor. It was perfectly safe for me to wonder the complex freely. Everything changed after the ANC took over - then everything went to shit, just like the rest of the country. Very sad, used to have great childhood memories associated with this building.
So you dad was probably an apartheid supprter too
Ya if you’ve got a pragerU video on your profile I’m immediately skeptical of your take. Care to elaborate how ANC messed this one up?
@@ryuhabdle9ead the history of ANC it will be all you need to know trust me. They turned the country into a complete shithole. They can't even figure out how to feed themselves cuz they didn't pay attention. They even admit now that they were better off before ANC destroyed the country. Its like a dog chasing a car what can the dog do with it if he/she catches it? Before ANC the farmers grew food etc and ANC followers are now starving and how's that better eh lazy people dont eat eh
@@ryuhabdle9Simple,Marxcists...
@@Wilt8v92 whats Marxism?
Damn South Africa is just real life Dredd. That building is literally Peach Trees.
MY THOUGHT EXACTLY
Was thinking exactly that
Just thinking that's too. Maybe that's where they got the idea from.
Bro, I thought the same.
"ethnostates with subjugated classes totally work bro i promise"
"This is where the dead bodies were and all the trash!" He said excitedly...
"What can I say? Dead bodies give me a boner."
In sandals...
… at their gravesite.
He is taking the "talk excitedly and energetically" thing that most youtubers do a little too seriously
Right omg 😳
My grandma is from Joburg, South Africa. Even though she doesn't live there anymore, she still loves her country and visits it regularly. It's crazy the amount of crime there!
Depends where you live tbh
@@lindaRbothagive it up Linda. Nobody agrees with your black supremacist views
According to the Global Peace Index ☮️, South Africa is the 20th most violent country in the world. Countries like Ukraine, Afghanistan and Iraq make it up to the top of the list. 🙈
Good maybe now everybody understands why we don't want any immigrants to make our crime any worse than it already is because that is the only thing it's going to do is raise our rates please everybody stay in your own countries and out of America
Thats crazy. That's a pretty cool design for a building
Bro is way too happy for the topic he’s talking about
He's happy not to be living there since 1994.
Fr turn the hype down.
this is gonna make cash for him anyways whether he sounds hyped up or sad, the cash is all what counts for content creators like them.
@@antares_m20 except mr beast huh I bet 😂😂
@@Mewokas lmfao blatant bigotry L
This building was used in movie named "Chappie"
I was just thinking that
I thought that as soon as I saw it but wasn’t sure
That’s exactly where I knew it from
It was also featured in movie Dredd, they called it Peach Trees.
Thanks.
Moral of story: One race builds up, another race tears down
Which race did what?
@@mychel82European colonrats tore up many places. That's what he means
@@mychel82you got eyes right. Look at sa in 80s and now. Look what happened to rhodesia turned zimbabwe. Look haiti. Look congo, niger. Now look at switzerland, old sweden, japan. You can see each type of people build each types of countries and technologies. In other words, you may leave afrlca but it will never leave you.
@@7346908yeah like tell me how it was b4 ..i mean i see all countries with only blcks why they are all sooo... you know.
Johannesburg is the most dangerous city I have visited. We had to leave all our belongings like necklaces, rings, phones, wallets, laptops back in the office in a locker just to traverse 1 city block to go to an adjoining office at noon. And this was a business district. Can imagine how it would be in slum areas or rural areas
I remember seeing this building and the inside of it in the movie Chappie. Love that film
Same, its one of the best movies ever imo
I was thinking the same😂
Same i thought bro
Same
Lobe it and die antwood
They weren't suicidal, they were thrown by the gangsters. It's a scary place
That's rt bru
Apartheid was worse
That makes more sense than someone jumping into trash or others throwing trash into ded ppl
Damn what floor did you live on bro?
@Davey Sanchez throwing trash into dead people 🤣🤣..u crazy 4dat lol
Left South Africa in 93, but remember driving past the building in the 80"s when we moved to Joburg. Sitting in the back seat with my dad driving, always thinking what a beautiful building it was.
Very sad how neglected and destroyed south Africa has become as a whole
Was it like that before apartheid?
@@glorygloryhallelujah yes it was, just not for the tiny minority of extremely wealthy whites.
I remember seeing this in chappie I believe, crazy that the movie greatly depicted life in the tower.
You're either this dog (points to the Pit Bull standing tall yet chained up) or you're that dog...(points to the dog lying dead) Chappie was a very under-rated movie... It was the 2000's Short Circut...
@@lucidsketchmaster33 CHAPPIES BOOK!!!!! HeY.....wHaTs Up FuKmOtHeR!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣
I was just gonna come here and ask if this was the building from that movie, well now I know, thx😅
Wat bout judge Dredd
I was thinking about chappie too.
As a South African, I can say with confidence that my country is failing terribly
Even today?
@@takumi2023 even today welcome to south Africa
Is it coincidental that it started after the end of apartheid? I think not lmfao
I lived thru apartheid that was hell
@@n9mone and now your country commits genocide against its own people based on skin colour. Congratulations.
That's a beautiful building
Shows you that real life can be even crazier than games and movies
Bro looks so happy to be there
"this is where all the dead bodies were and all the trash" he exclaimed with enthusiasm and glee.
True !! 😅
@@lorenzocitro720repent and believe the gospel
I was looking for this comment bruv wth is wrong wit this guy
Fr
This is straight up the real life Peach Trees from Judge Dredd. It also reminds me of that huge apartment building in Cyberpunk 2077.
Holy crap, now i remember, it's that movie where 2 cops are sent to a building infested with gangs
@@AsianEspionage they are judges not cops and it's not 2 it's 1
Not only those, but the building on resident evil, the one where they defend against de dead army throwing burning oil, I may be wrong, but even the terrain on the first floor....
I believe this is the building thay inspired that.
Not everything is dork shit
“Gangsters hijacked the building and charged people to live here” yeah those are called landlords
I remember walking in exactly the same spot as a kid in 1980. There wasn't much else to do on weekends back then. Quite an impressive but surreal building.
Remember the tenpin bowling alley?
I had no idea Judge Dredd building was inspired by a real life building. Its so unique! Wish it had a better ending!
Yeah, I found that movie disappointing too.
Bro I was about to comment something bout judge dredd too! I just watched it and I immediately thought of it seeing this building.
very good movie i have seen it many times.
i wish that they made more movies about judge dredd showing more of the world and stuff like that. or make one long movie which is 100+ hours long
Bro I forgot the movies name can you tell me
I was thinking the same thing
THE CHAPPIE SCENE BRO
I WAS LOOKINGFOR THIS COMMENT DUDE!
@@yagtyt8048 me too😂
Red
Bruh
Finally a chappie comment
One of the coolest building designs, ever.
That place is perfect place to rebuilt an hospital 🏥, a bank 🏦, and an indoor swimming 🏊♀️ facility and a food court and a museum.
Yeah, fill in the middle with water and some dishes and we can go deep water diving 😁
South Africa is a great example of how not to govern a country.
Also of when The dark African people govern themselves.
u cant govern if u violent
You mean all of africa? Lol Egypt is even worse
You mean every African country? I mean south Africa is unfortunately the best of the lot
@@Mental._Kitty Morocco is better
They used it in Chappie. Probably a good representation of what it looked like at the time
And it served the same purpose. It was a warlord den
I was wondering why it looked so familiar. Chappie crossed my mind but I wasn't sure.
Exactly where I knew it from
@@leopardskywhich dog do you want to be ?
Wait isn't that the movie where they filem? Chappie?
In the last 80s, I’d a friend (an artist and coloured) who lived there and I, in my teens, used to visit him all the time; back then it was posh. I can’t believe how and what my country became.
I used to live in Yeoville; a sweet spot, and Rockey Str was my playground! I loved Mamamia’s Pizza (best Pizza on the planet; even NYC doesn’t come close). And after living in the US for 30 years and last year I visited Yeoville, Hillbrow, Observatory, it was an embarrassment! What a shame it all turned to ghetto…that’s the freedom they wanted??
It was considered luxury when it first opened
That's the smoothest loop ever bro
This place is literally Peach Trees from Judge Dredd 2012 😲😲
YES
Thought the same thing
Or the building from that robot movie chappie
@@yeboid.p.3641 chappie was filmed in Johannesburg south africa
@@Why_you_change_the_subject So was the Dredd movie which the original comment was referring too
Chappie really showed how it woulda been with the homelessness
I knew I recognized that building from a movie!!
CHAPPIEEE BEST MOVIEEEEEE
Yeah
@@jamesaulner8958 yeah ❤
This is the exact same building
Give the architect of this building an award 😂
Thank you Nelson
There's something so poetic about this building having a giant billboard advertising Vodafone over it
Prior to 2000 it advertised Coca Cola
Ponte was a high end luxury apartment block built in the 70s. During the late 70s and 80s it was the place, if you could afford it, it even had shops and restaurants at the bottom.😊😊😊
Shops are still there - I had pizza
It began a slow deterioration after being high end apartments. In 1990's it was inhabited by many wits tech students. Then low cost housing and the gangs came in. Sad it was iconic at one point.
Looks awesome.
Everything and everyone in this world is temporal.
Thanks for sharing, which country is this in?
I remember in the 90's running and jumping down the staircases from the top as fast as we could for fun.
Same happened in Cape Town but nuilding got cleaned out nd renovated. People jumping out windows and women going missing in flat.
Judge Dredd movie was inspired by this building such great movie highly recommend
Dredd or Judge Dredd movie.
There's a fillm called chappie that was partially shot there too
No it wasnt,Judge Dredd is much older
@@skuastone9698 Dredge
@@originaldelta "Judge Dredd is much older"
Judge Dredd was released in '95. Ponte City turned into a slum in the late '80s to early '90s. So actually, the slums were 'much older'. 10 seconds on Google prevents you from looking mentally deficient.
“And this is where all the dead bodies and trash goes” 💀 that sums up South Africa
So true.
Rotten to the core
@Dont_click_this_profile_read the room
It looked like a nice building at some point
This guy sounds so cheery when talking about this…
My favorite songwriter, Shaun Morgan from Seether, grew up in a slum that was a series of apartment buildings, all under the jurisdiction of gangsters.. gang wars were frequent, and so were regime changes, as a result. Him and his brother were given a pistol at 9 years old to protect themselves while their mom worked 2 jobs. South Africa is no joke.
Seether is currently my fav
Colonizers man I swesr
@@ryuhabdle9There can be white and black gangsters my friend, stop looking so one-sided
@@ryuhabdle9*somalia with colonizer money ahem
Jesus, he's your favorite songwriter? A few chords and putting words together to rhyme them with zero thought given to meaning? You do you, I guess
It looks incredible, like something out of a cyberpunk dystopia.
@@ArbachtMF wowowowow no political opinion here.
It got me thinking of the movie Dredd
Exactly, some futuristic but degraded society
Straight ot of dredd
Literally my exact thoughts.
Joburg was a stunning city..
Was I lived there for 10 years. I know this building.people didn't commit suicide they were thtown over like the garbage.
The opening sentace catches you off guard😅😅
I've been here once to see my friend who was staying with her boyfriend. I had gone to spend the weekend with her and had so much planned but ended up staying inside the whole time coz her boyfriend was worried people would follow me to their place coz I didn't fit in. RSA is wild
Let us keep in contact
In what way didn't you fit in?...what was going on?
@@naledimosikara7861 probably she looked like a foreigner => her family has money. Did you know South African homes has metal gates between rooms in addition to normal room doors? It's so if someone intruded, - sleeping ppl in other room will be safe
Are you friends with drug dealers? Bcs, that people stay in there
@@shehnazahmad5213 If you really think a building this big is 100% occupied by drug dealers you are incredibly naive about poverty.
Judging by how he described it, trash pileups, dead bodies, prostitution, I just know it smelled absolutely HORRIBLE there.
What did you expect, it's Johannesburg.
@@Seagull780 I know nothing of Johannesburg
@@calebprimes677 you know nothing, John snow.
Smell of prostitution 😂😩
this was my first thought, i wonder what sort of smell radius around the building there would be.
It is a shame to any civil to leave in such disgraceful situation!
That’s a cool looking building
That’s actually such a cool building
That's what I was thinking, without criminals controlling it obviously
It must gave been beautiful when it was first built.
Same thought, the building looks awesome, architectural.
Would you live there under the conditions? Not so cool
@@lk4871 talking about the building. You’re off topic 😂
Damn man. Beautiful building. It’s a shame how evil destroys the mind
If true, who cleaned it and put the elevators back in?
Reminds me of the tower of babel
Eh? That makes zero sense in reference to this video lol
Marxist run country, coming to your country soon
@@michaelkraus7372 That's exactly the same thought that I had.
The ANC have done an amazing job with SA you have to wonder how bad a government can be
It was also used in a great Ice Cube movie back in the 90's called Dangerous Ground....
I was in it in 1976 when first built. Beautiful apartments
Me too... We lived across from the park and watched it being built... I played there as a kid
Ohh back when blacks were keffas
🤥
Why did your country change so much ?
The future of USA.. that's why.
"Who the fuck starts a conversation like that!?! I just sat down!!!"
AWESOME!!!
they should make a series about that
If South africa could get a government like Botswanas itd be an amazing place to live
Damn, thats a good one.
Is botswana really good? Fr im really interested in rising african countries😅
@@blackginkgo8169 it’s good by African standards, meaning it’s like looking at Detroit as a bastion of civilization.
OMG!
You have good ideas.
Botswana is amazing! So well run that it's staggering, in Africa!
@123_ABC, that bad? Okay, still a lot better than RSA.
@@blackginkgo8169 A long time ago I heard mineral wealth didn't terribly corrupt Botswana and that gov officials actually do work, but I'm not up to date with current events.
This building has been revamped and is the apartments are quite nice now, security is tight as well. Unfortunately the surrounding area is still dangerous
Whole of South Africa is fucking dangerous
Cap
😮
Why?
@@st.joanne it’s South Africa, everywhere is dangerous lol
istantly recognized this because one of chappie's scene was filmed here! loved that movie :3
Yes it was - awesome movie wasn't it?
Go there today and see how safe it is ❤️
As long as my legs still work I'm walking my ass to the countryside to live ❤
Wish you the best God bless you
Lol😂😂
Terry Dorsey
Lolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy Terry ! All the best !!!! 😅
there is no way, I would live in a Buiding like that, earthquakes, fires, it would be like 9/11
I love your comment. Can't beat country living..hope the
Our COUNTRY brother...not just the building.
But I'll keep coming home
I would like to see a paranormal investigation of this place. It has to be haunted.
Bet it was beautiful when it was built
It was lol and you’d never guess who built it
Construction workers
@@CriticalCipher nailed it, you won a prize
The design is brutalist. Not beautiful on purpose
@@michealshelton2133 Whether something is done on purpose as symbolism or not, doesn't change what truly matters. How people interpret it.
It's beautiful, the architects were simply behind the shifting artistic interest of the public.
You seem to be so excited to be there!! Wow, how morbid.
We used to go to a club situated on the ground floor in the eighties. Was called the Junction. Fantastic times.
Are you Fox Mulder's brother?
🛸
@@simonmulder8797 I knew it!!! Say hello to him for me.👽💫😼
Junction was not in or even at the base of Ponte, it was further down Claim st towards the CBD.
@@Humanbeering WOW any old picture s too be found of yhat place
I used to stay very close to that building in the late 2000s. I saw it every single day at the time. I never would have thought this is what it used to be
Where is it?
@@akapraveen190 Doornfontein.
Edit: actually is Berea. Next to Doornfontein.
Same. I didn't even know it was residential building. And I still pass there every now and again
Wow that’s real ! How did they get people outa there ? Is there any documentaries on this place
How sad. It is happening all over our beautiful country.
South Africa is a scary scary place. Yet all South African travelers I have encountered were the most decent and down to earth humans ever
That's how they lure you in
Because most of the crime is in direct relation to the extreme levels of poverty. "Travellers" will more than likely be "decent" because they're not struggling in the townships like the rest of their countrymen.
@@28stretch are you nuts?
Have you met white or black south Africans?
Yeah like 10% are decent and down to earth humans 😢
My grandfather lived there in the 1980's back then it was such a beautiful place.
It was a luxury apartment when it opened
@@ArchitectRussell yes it was. my grandfather's surname was Russell.
Back when black people where treated like dog's??
@@eddiediedericks535 Am I gatecrashing a family reunion...? 😅
On a serious note, that was one innovative concept in high rise buildings, in its day 👌🏼
Then black people got power …
My friend used to stay here and I used to visit her and sleepover...I remember looking down thinking crap, this is a living nightmare.
Your parents let you go over? What did they say dropping you off? I'm so curious. What was that conversation like?
@@allsmilesx0573 and who are you to criticize? You’re probably a European sitting comfy in Europe whom has plundered and pillaged from the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Maybe if Europeans hadn’t colonized Africa with current borders that put so many ethnic people in conflict and plunder it’s natural resources with little regards to the economic growth or quality pf life of folks the countries situation might have been a bit better and avoiding some of the root causes of the issue. So I ask you again, who are you to criticize?
It'll take u 30mins to get out.maybe more..wild structure
@@PORSCHE_COUNTRY. I think you’re thinking of Judge Dredd
@@allsmilesx0573 lol, they trusted me and to be honest I was a pretty responsible kid, so I never was monitored. Up to this day, they don't know I slept there probably thought I was in a school residence somewhere with my friend meanwhile she stayed in those type of areas.
This building is also in the movie Chappie. There's something mysterious about it. I like it.
I was just about to write this comment...
@@-joo3033 same
There's the comment I was looking for
As soon as I saw the ground the The Chappie movie came into my mind
Yes it was - awesome movie wasn't it?
Looks like something out of a dystopian film, "Mad Max beyond the Apartment complex".
I'm black and my grandfather always tells me how safe and beautiful areas like this were back in the day. We don't need apartheid but we do need to get rid of the ANC
We need to start looking out for one another. 🙏
Your response is the most mature response here. It's not pro-Apartheid or pro-ANC. You realize that both systems are garbage and need to be disposed off. Here's a 🍪
As long as EFF doesn’t take their place. Then we’re all fucked
doesn't matter.
they all the same.
they all promise the same things. they all say the same things.
they all have the same "principles and constitutions" really..
the issue isnt the party. the issue is rotten humans.
Change the party cool, but don't delude yourself into thinking suddenly rsa will be ultra safe, ultra wealthy, ultra educated.
bruh just go to europe lmao
My heart dropped seein how far down that was
GOD BLESS
South Africa was the first country in the world where a heart transplant was performed by Christian Barnard. My father's friend was his anesthesiologist on a few occasions. He had to leave like many other talented people. You can figure out why
My grandmother's sister married a Charles? Who would experiment of rabbits transplanting hearts...Christian Barnard invited him to Sth Africa... but his wife Vera refused to let him go...small world...they lived in Dunedin N.Z.1950s
Because skin colour matters more than skill apparently
In South Africa? The first partial heart transplant was in Mexico by the ancient Aztecs. They ripped the heart out but didn't figure out how to put it back in, so they ate it. Well that predated modern science. Like Gomez Addams always said another triumph for medical science😊
Black PIPO?😂
@@nostradamus7648 Ayo Dasss rite!!!
I'm pretty sure this is the building that was featured in the movie chappie. I'm not sure if anyone knows that movie, but I always wondered what building it was.
Yeah they used the same building
Yes it was today its a scary place for real
Yes bruv . Thought it was CGI
Ayyy i reconized it too
Robo cop I believe
This is were the movie chappie is made. I tot it wasn't an actual place. Am amazed to see it here.
I was invited to visit a person that lived in this building in 1974 when it was an expensive place to live. Was it near Berea/ Hillbrow. Long time ago.
There's no maintenance for anything in south africa
That’s a huuuuuge business opportunity, right there..,someone need to wake up ad make a good living. I don’t see a problem I see an opportunity staring you in the face.
@@tesfanaableWell said
Just like Nigeria
@@tesfanaable that's because you don't understand what's going on
@@tesfanaable You clearly aren't from here. You're right it's a great business opportunity for the gangsters who work hand in hand with the government. The company is formed, the money is paid 20 times over , but the work isn't done. And no one can get that work except a chosen few gangsters.
This style of building should never be replicated. This looks and feels like a prison!
Look up the history of the building and it’s use during apartheid 😉
@@jen8063 probably used as low income housing to keep blacks in one area but i could be wrong
no, i went to a nice hotel designed like this, of course with a lobby and restaurants instead of a corpse pile, and less african gangsters, althought still toomany, and it was fine.
my mind "Judge Dred movie"
Its construction is durable, we need more of these
Reminds me of the mega tower in 'Dredd'. Drugs, gangs, falls and all.
Are their any vacancies? Looks like a nice place to raise a family 😜
Hey Are you from Los Angeles? Lol
@@vadimnesen8060Don't think so. I believe he's from Detroit.
That building is actually very unique and would make the most amazing flats or private properties with those 1930 kind of vibes when looking at the amazing centre
Would you wanna live there knowing what happened there?
Nah man all negative energy...
@@divinedragoon4743 make your own energy
Probably haunted which could be a selling point.
Built by forced labour, for whites only in rhe apartheid era, one of most hated building in south africa 🤡
I just watched chappie and I was wondering about that building. Neat!
Yeah me too, love that movie btw
Wow! I didn't know that!
Bruh thats cool you dont have to take out trash ❤❤❤❤
We visited friends there in 1982 and it was a nice clean building.
Yes during apartheid when things were run correctly.
can you show a photo from then?
@@noseydaveman9940 how was apartheid better?
@@jaguarsparkle8788 no black people in charhe
@@noseydaveman9940please tell me its sarcasm
I have always wondered what the inside of that building looks like!!! 🤯👀👀 Thanks for going in and filming. This is a fascinating video i did not expect to come across 🇿🇦👏
Think it's shown in one of the Resident evil films and Dredd
@@LengfOrGirf 👀for real?
@@alexandersibande Yebo. The Last of the Paul WS Anderson RE films
Glad you enjoyed it
Drake filmed a music video in there